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Hendrik  Hudson 


"  '  _     w   E  was  born — no  one  knows  where  or  when.    He  died 
— no  one  knows  when  or  how.    He  comes  into  our 
knowledge  on  the  quarterdeck  of  a  ship  bound  for  the 
North  Pole.    He  goes  out  of  our  knowledge  in  a 
crazy  boat  manned  by  eight  sick  sailors." 

So  writes  one  historian  of  the  hero  who  blazed  his  name  upon 
America's  history  by  discovering  the  mighty  river  and  the  bay 
that  bears  his  name.  He  appears  to  have  vanished  into  nothing- 
ness when  his  grand  work  was  done. 

Even  his  portrait  and  autograph  are  not  generally  believed  to 
be  genuine.  No  one  knows  his  age  at  the  time  he  made  his  dis- 
coveries. That  he  was  of  mature  years  is  shown  by  his  having 
an  eighteen-year-old  son.  But  whether  he  was  a  hale  mariner 
of  forty  or  a  grizzled  veteran  of  seventy  has  never  been  guessed. 

He  was  born,  it  seems,  in  England,  some  time  in  the  sixteenth 
century.  His  name  was  Henry  Hodgson,  but  his  Dutch  employ- 
ers later  twisted  the  English  phraseology  into  "Hendrik  Hudson." 


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His  father  and  grandfather  are  supposed  to  have  been  London 
merchants. 

Hudson  first  appears  in  history  on  April  19,  1607,  when,  with 
his  sixteen-year-old  son,  John,  and  ten  mariners  he  sailed  from 
England  as  captain  of  the  Muscovy  Company's  little  sixty-ton 
ship  Hopewell.  Here  is  the  modest  object  of  his  voyage  as  set 
forth  in  his  own  notes: 

"To  discover  the  North  Pole  and  to  sail  across  it  to  China  or 
India." 


Broadway,  between  Pearl  and  Duane  Sts.,  about  1807 


Sailing  on  the  Hopewell  in  April,  1607,  he  scored  a  "farthest 
north"  record,  penetrating  to  within  10  degrees  of  the  North  Pole 
and  discovering  Spitzbergen.  But  the  icepack  and  cross  cur- 
rents at  last  drove  him  back.  He  returned  to  England  without 
having  found  the  long-sought  Passage  across  the  Pole  to  the 
Orient  But  in  1608  he  was  ready  for  another  search.  Again, 
he  sought  the  mythical  Passage.  This  time  he  sailed  eastward 
to  Nova  Zembla,  and  again  -was  turned  back.  Here  is  a  queer 
extract  from  Hudson's  notebook  for  this  voyage : 

"On  this  day  (June  15,  1608)  one  of  our  company,  looking 
overboard,  saw  a  mermaid.  She  was  close  to  the  ship's  side, 
looking  earnestly  upward." 

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Hudson's  two  failures  to  find  the  Northwest  passage  caused 
the  company  to  abandon  further  work  along  this  line ;  and  as 
an  explorer  Hudson  was  out  of  occupation.  Just  when  it  looked 
as  if  he  would  sink  into  oblivion  "unwept,  unhonored  and 
unsung,"  came  the  chance  of  his  life  and  the  name  and  fame 
of  Hendrik  Hudson  has  gone  down  the  centuries  as  one  of  the 
greatest  discoverers  of  his  or  any  age  by  his  immortal  voyage 
on  the  "Half  Moon"  to  the  mouth  of  the  great  river  which  now 
bears  his  name. 

For  his  perilous  journey,  in  the  frailest  of  frail  crafts,  Hud- 
son received  the  munificent  sum  of  $320.  In  case  he  never  came 
back  the  generous  directors  of  the  company  agreed  to  pay  his 
widow  a  further  sum  of  $80  in  cash.  This  may  not  seem  much 
to  us  in  these  days,  but  it  averaged  well  for  similar  work  at  that 
time. 

Following  Hudson's  great  work  New  York  was  settled 
by  the  Dutch  and  the  city  was  known  as  New  Amsterdam. 
Descendants  of  these  early  settlers  are  in  many  instances  promi- 
nent members  of  New  York's  best  society  and  pride  themselves 
not  a  little  on  their  ancient  lineage. 


Fighting  Fire  in  1800  —  26  Broadway,  now  the  Standard  Oil  Building 

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No.  1  Broadway,  in  the  rear  of  which  Fulton  lived 
(Looking  up  from  Bowling  Green) 


Robert  Fulton,  Inventor  of 
Steam  Navigation 

LTHOUGH  Fulton  is  practically  known  to  fame  for 
his  invention  of  navigating  by  steam,  he  was,  never- 
theless, one  of  the  most  brilliant  of  men  in  many  pur- 
suits and  would  have  been  distinguished  in  any  one  of 
them  had  he  never  touched  a  steamboat. 

It  is  the  little-known  achievements  of  Fulton  that  show  the 
marvellous  fecundity  of  his  mind,  and  that  are  the  origin  of  some 
of  the  most  astonishing  developments  of  the  present  century. 
For  instance,  who  would  think  that  the  present  Dreadnough,  the 
mighty  battleship  of  the  day,  is  as  much  the  child  of  the  thought 
of  Fulton  as  is  the  giant  Lusitania  on  the  plane  of  the  steam- 
boat? Yet  it  is,  and  so  are  the  submarines,  with  all  their  cun- 
ning mechanism ;  so,  too,  are  the  torpedoes,  submarine  and  aerial, 
guided  by  electricity  or  by  wireless  waves.  Who  would  think 
that  the  Maxim  silencer  has  straight  descent  from  him;  or  that 
the  wonderful  cantilever  bridges  of  peace  found  their  inception 
in  his  brain?  But  they  did.  So,  too,  the  system  of  canals  or 
inland  waterways  that  the  United  States  is  only  beginning  to 
see  the  necessity  of  were  clearly  mapped  out  by  Fulton  at  the 


end  of  the  eighteenth  century,  while  the  giant  crane  comes 
directly  from  his  conception  of  various  simple  devices  for  rais- 
ing and  lowering  canal  boats.  So,  too,  the  moving  picture 
machine,  with  its  Roosevelt  hunts  and  Messina  tragedies,  is  the 
evolution  of  the  panorama — the  first  ever  to  be  built — that  he 
constructed  in  Paris  in  1796. 

Fulton's  great  idea  was  that  by  his  various  marine  inventions 
war  by  sea  would  become  so  terrible  that  no  nation  would  ever 
engage  in  it.  "The  peace  of  the  seas  is  the  happiness  of  the 
earth"  was  a  favorite  saying  of  his.  A  full  list  of  his  accomplish- 
ments is  certainly  but  little  less  than  marvellous. 

He  built  the  first  steam  battleship — and  it  was  accepted  by 
the  United  States  in  1814. 

He  invented  the  first  submarine  boat — and  made  it  go. 

He  invented  the  first  submarine  torpedo — and  blew  up  a  ves- 
sel with  it. 

He  invented  a  machine  to  cut  cables  of  ships  at  anchor — for 
use  in  war. 

He  suggested  the  principle  of  the  first  cantilever  bridge. 
He  painted  and  built  the  first  panorama  in  Europe. 
He  invented  a  flax-spinning  contrivance  which  is  still  the 
basis  of  the  most  modern  machine. 
He  invented  a  perfect  rope  spinner. 

He  designed  the  first  scientific  marble-cutting  machine. 

He  was  an  accomplished  artist,  having  studied  under  Ben- 
jamin West,  the  leading  artist  of  his  day  and  a  boyhood  friend 
of  Fulton's. 


^  sel  ever  Propelled  by  Steam.  1807. 


Special  Features,  Routes  of  Parades,  etc. 


HE  route  of  land  parades  will  be  from  One  Hundred 
and  Tenth  street  down  Central  Park  West  to  Fifty- 
ninth  street,  east  to  Fifth  avenue  to  Washington 
square. 

September  25 — Naval  parade  of  American  and  foreign  war- 
ships in  New  York  harbor,  starting  from  Governor's  Island  at 
1. 15  P.  M.  To  be  repeated  with  illuminations  at  7  P.  M.  Recep- 
tion of  guests  at  One  Hundred  and  Tenth  street  and  Riverside 
Drive  in  the  afternoon.    Special  services  in  synagogues. 

Aerial  flight  from  New  York  to  Albany;  airships  are  sta- 
tioned at  One  Hundred  and  Nineteenth  street  and  Riverside 
Drive.  A  member  of  the  managing  committee  each  day  during 
the  celebration  will  announce  a  starting  hour,  weather  condi- 
tions permitting. 

September  26 — Religious  services  in  all  churches. 

September  27 — Airship  flights  by  Wilbur  Wright  and  Glenn 
H.  Curtiss.  Official  receptions  to  guests  and  opening  of  exhi- 
bitions. 

September  28 — Historical  parade  and  pageant.  Procession 
of  floats  and  moving  tableaux  representing  principal  events  in 
early  American  history.  Starts  from  One  Hundred  and  Tenth 
street  and  Central  Park  West  at  1  P.  M. 

September  29 — Aquatic  sports  opposite  Riverside  Park  and 
Yonkers.  Commemorative  exercises  and  dedication  of  memo- 
rials. Celebration  of  Bronx  Borough  Day.  Children's  festival 
in  Richmond  Borough.  United  States  authorities'  reception  to 
guests  at  West  Point. 

September  30 — Military  parade  in  Manhattan,  participated  in 
by  United  States  Army,  Navy  and  Marine  Corps,  National 
Guard,,  Naval  Militia,  veteran  organizations  and  sailors  and 
marines  from  foreign  war  vessels.  Starts  from  One  Hundred 
and  Tenth  street  and  Central  Park  West  at  1  P.  M. 

October  1 — Naval  parade  in  which  other  craft  will  join.  One 
division  will  start  from  New  York  and  one  from  Albany,  meet- 
ing at  Newburg,  where  a  reception  will  be  held.  Ceremonies 
on  "Half  Moon"  and  "Clermont."  '  Newburg  street  parade  and 
fireworks  in  the  evening.  Manhattan  historical  pageant  will  be 
repeated  in  Brooklyn. 

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October  2 — Children's  festival  in  50  centers  of  Greater  New 
York,  500,000  school  children  attending.  Return  of  naval  parade 
from  Newburg.  Historical  pageant  repeated  on  Staten  Island. 
Dedicatory  exercise  at  Stony  Point.  Carnival  parade  in  Manhat- 
tan in  the  evening. 

The  celebration  will  be  continued  on  the  Hudson  River  north 
of  New  York  City  from  October  3  to  October  9. 

October  9 — Carnival  parade  will  be  repeated  on  Eastern 
Parkway  in  Brooklyn  from  8  to  11  o'clock  in  the  evening. 


Landing  place  foot    Cortlandt  Street  of  the  daily  line  of  steamers  to  Albany 
following    Fulton's  invention,  1820,  and  from  which  the  "Clermont"  sailed 


Some  Things  the  Visitor  Should  See  in  New  York. 

THE  AQUARIUM  IN  BATTERY  PARK.  Most  wonder- 
ful collection  of  denizens  of  the  sea  ever  shown.  Reached  by  all 
the  subways,  elevated  and  street  cars. 

BRONX     ZOOLOGICAL     GARDENS.  Bronx  Park. 

Reached  by  subway  and  elevated.  Largest  and  finest  wild  ani- 
mal exhibit  in  the  world. 

METROPOLITAN  MUSEUM  OF  ART.  Central  Park, 

opposite  78th  street.  Special  exhibition  of  Old  Dutch  Masters 
in  commemoration  of  Hudson-Fulton  week. 

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CONEY  ISLAND.  With  a  little  world  of  amusements  all 
its  own.  Reached  by  boat  and  cars  from  Brooklyn  Bridge.  A 
thousand  and  one  diversions. 

GRANT'S  TOMB.    On  Riverside  Drive. 

OLD  TRINITY..  On  Broadway,  head  of  Wall  street. 
Where  Fulton  is  buried. 

OLD  ST.  PAUL'S.  Broadway  between  Vesey  and  Fulton 
streets.  Where  Washington  worshiped  while  a  resident  of  New 
York. 

CITY  HALL  PARK  AND  PRINTING  HOUSE  SQUARE. 
The  former  is  one  of  the  few  buildings  existing  since  Colonial 
Days.  The  many  .newspapers  published  in  the  latter  make  it 
interesting  to  strangers. 

MILLIONAIRES'  ROW.  East  side  of  Central  Park  above 
59th  street.  Here  lives  Carnegie,  Rockefeller,  Belmont,  and 
hosts  of  others  equally  well  known. 

The  leading  retail  shopping  districts  are  in  middle  Broadway 
between  Astor  Place  and  Tenth  street.  Then  on  Fourteenth, 
Twenty-third  and  Thirty-fourth  streets,  respectively.  Upper 
Fifth  avenue  is  also  an  important  retail  section. 

There  are  over  sixty-nine  theatres  in  New  York,  located 
mainly  between  Twenty-eighth  and  Fourty-eighth  streets  on  or 
near  Broadway.  Nearly  every  possible  taste  can  be  gratified  at 
one  or  the  other  of  the  various  attractions  now  playing  and  at 
almost  any  price. 

Restaurants,  Cafes  and  Hotels  in  the  theatre  district  are 
mostly  high  priced.  The  side  streets  offer  excellent  service  at 
slightly  less  cost. 


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Block  between  Liberty  and  Cortlandt  Sts.  on  Broadway  now  occupied  by  City  Investing 
Building  and  Hudson  Terminals  costing  over  $15,000,000. 

The  highest  building  in  New  York  is  in  Madison  Square. 
The  Singer  Building  and  other  notable  skyscrapers  are  in  lower 
Broadway. 

The  docks  of  the  famous  "Lusitania"  and  "Mauretania,"  larg- 
est and  fastest  boats  in  the  world,  are  at  the  foot  of  Fourteenth 
street  on  the  West  side.  All  the  Atlantic  liners  dock  in  about 
the  same  neighborhood. 

The  new  Pennsylvania  Railroad  depot  is  at  Thirty-third  street 
and  Seventh  avenue,  and  cost  fifty  millions  of  dollars.  Some 
idea  of  the  immense  work  being  done  also  by  the  New  York 
Central  can  be  obtained  by  a  walk  across  Forty-sixth  street  from 
Madison  to  Lexington  avenues. 

The  pictures  of  Old  New  York  given  in  this  number  are  not 
so  very  old  after  all.  Some  of  them  date  back  less  than  forty 
years.  By  contrasting  with  their  present  buildings  one  gets  an 
idea  of  the  growth  of  New  York,  not  only  in  population,  but  in 
wealth  and  business  to  make  these  costly  edifices  possible  and 
profitable. 

At  the  time  this  book  is  being  prepared  none  of  the  decora- 
tive features  of  the  great  Hudson-Fulton  parade  are  as  yet  avail- 
able. The  most  notable  of  them  will  be  carefully  selected  by  us 
and  published  in  a  second  edition  of  this  book,  which  will  con- 
tain all  the  features  of  the  parades  that  have  proven  successful. 

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This  is  directly  opposite  Columbus  Circle  at  Broadway,  8th  Avenue  and  59th,  as 

appeared  only  50  years  ago 


How  Some  Street  Names  Originated  in  New  York. 

Barclay — From  the  Rev.  Henry  Barclay,  second  rector  of 
Trinity. 

Battery  Place — From  a  place  where  a  battery  was  erected  in 
1869. 

Beaver — From  the  beaver;  originally  the  fur  district.  The 
animal  was  an  important  factor  in  the  fur  business  in  the  old 
days. 

Canal  street  was  originally  a  canal  forty  feet  wide,  with  a 
promenade  and  trees  on  each  side  of  it.  It  carried  the  water  from 
the  old  Collect  Pond  to  the  Hudson  River.  A  stone  bridge 
crossed  it  at  Broadway ;  this  is  now  below  the  pavement  of  that 
busy  thoroughfare. 

Church  street  was  cut  through  property  belonging  to  Trinity 
Church. 

Cortlandt — From  OlofT  Stevenson  Cortlandt,  an  early  settler, 
through  whose  land  the  street  was  cut. 

Exchange  Place — Where  the  old  Merchants'  Exchange  was 
located. 

Fulton — From  Robert  Fulton,  whose  history  is,  or  should  be, 
known  to  every  one. 

Greene  street  honors  the  name  of  General  Nathaniel  Greene. 

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Copyright  by 

H.  C.  BROWN  CO. 

419  Lafayette  St. 

N.  Y. 


